Results 5,681-5,700 of 10,962 for speaker:Timmy Dooley
- Order of Business (8 Jul 2014)
Timmy Dooley: I appreciate the chair's indulgence.
- Order of Business (8 Jul 2014)
Timmy Dooley: I apologise.
- Order of Business (8 Jul 2014)
Timmy Dooley: It is not time wasting.
- Order of Business (8 Jul 2014)
Timmy Dooley: Thank you.
- Appointment of Tánaiste: Announcement by An Taoiseach (8 Jul 2014)
Timmy Dooley: Some of his colleagues have been out on this before him but the Taoiseach should continue.
- Order of Business (8 Jul 2014)
Timmy Dooley: He did that on the day he got elected here.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2014)
Timmy Dooley: It is the privatisation of volunteers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Italian Presidency of Council of European Union: Italian Ambassador (8 Jul 2014)
Timmy Dooley: I welcome the ambassador. I thank him for his presentation and for providing the committee in advance with a detailed copy of Italy's agenda for its Presidency over the next six months. If we as politicians have learned anything from the recent European elections, it is that the citizens of Europe are not content with the way we have been operating the Union for their benefit. That is...
- Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Airports (Shannon Group) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2014)
Timmy Dooley: My understanding is that a commitment was given to the workforce of Shannon Development that notwithstanding the fact that some employees worked in different areas of the company such as the tourism side, they would all be redeployed. Some remain within enterprises that remain operational. For example, some of the job creation activity performed by the company is largely similar to the work...
- Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Airports (Shannon Group) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2014)
Timmy Dooley: Are their jobs protected?
- Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Airports (Shannon Group) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2014)
Timmy Dooley: But they do not have a meaningful role to play.
- Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Airports (Shannon Group) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2014)
Timmy Dooley: Is all the Minister providing for in this section is that what is in existence will remain in existence, notwithstanding the fact that staff are not connected with it anymore? Does the superannuation scheme transfer to Shannon commercial enterprises?
- Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Airports (Shannon Group) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2014)
Timmy Dooley: Similar to Enterprise Ireland, IDA Ireland and so on.
- Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Airports (Shannon Group) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2014)
Timmy Dooley: I move amendment No. 8: In page 31, after line 42, to insert the following:“35.The Air Navigation and Transport (Amendment) Act 1998 is amended by inserting a new section 32A as follows:“32A.The IAS scheme shall not be allowed to close its pension scheme except where the scheme has reached a minimum 90 per cent funding standard.”.”.May I discuss the amendment in...
- Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Airports (Shannon Group) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2014)
Timmy Dooley: There is no issue. When we discuss the section we will have the opportunity to address issues that arise from the section so we will be facilitated.
- Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Airports (Shannon Group) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2014)
Timmy Dooley: That is accepted. There will be an opportunity before the section is passed to discuss any elements in it.
- Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Airports (Shannon Group) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2014)
Timmy Dooley: The effect of amendment No. 9 would have been to create a new section 35. The intention was to address the funding position of the Irish Aviation Authority scheme in the event of its being wound up. My view, which other Deputies share, is that there should be a provision to ensure that until it has reached a minimum of 90% funding, there should not be the capacity to eliminate it or close...
- Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Airports (Shannon Group) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2014)
Timmy Dooley: We voted on whether the section stands. It is still possible to amend it.
- Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Airports (Shannon Group) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2014)
Timmy Dooley: No, because one could technically amend what has already been amended.
- Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Airports (Shannon Group) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2014)
Timmy Dooley: I will try not to be repetitive because Deputy Clare Daly has covered some of my concerns arising from the Minister's last comments. Regarding a comment made by Deputy Michael McNamara, lest there be any doubt, I do not have an objection to the passage of the Bill, but, like him, I do have an objection to section 34 which I do not believe is necessary or wise at a time when we do not have...